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Miren Vizcaino, Ph.D Assistant Professor Stevinweg 1 PhD
position available to model the Greenland ice sheet with CESM-CISM |
Research interest
Main processes of ice sheet-climate-solid earth
interaction, from Masson-Delmotte et al. (2013), in last IPCC report AR5. Ice sheets are a key interactive component of the Earth System. At present, they are
losing mass at an increasing pace, becoming a main contributor to sea level
rise. In the past, they were a key player of climate change. However, ice sheets are not yet standard components of the models used for future climate
projections. My work aims to advance the inclusion of ice sheets
as a new and indispensable component of Earth System Models. In addition, I collaborate with my colleagues of GRS on cryosphere observation and the investigation of
coupled ice-sheet/climate/solid-Earth dynamics.
Research methods
Modeling ice-sheet/climate interaction requires the
coupling of global climate, surface processes (e.g., melt, albedo), and ice
flow. This coupling is very challenging,
due to model resolution constrains, lack of observations (e.g. basal
conditions), lack of appropriate snow models over the ice sheets, and climate
model biases, among others. These challenges are recent progress in the field
are reviewed in this article. I have coupled ice sheet models and Atmosphere-Ocean
General Circulation Models (AOGCMs) in several Earth System Models. In 2013, I presented with my collaborators the first realistic
simulation of ice sheet surface processes with a global climate model. Publications
Please check http://www.researcherid.com/rid/D-4443-2013 C.V.
Education 2001-2006 PhD
in Earth Sciences, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and University of
Hamburg, Germany á Alumni, ÒInternational Max Planck Research School
on Earth System ModellingÓ 1995-2001 ÒLicenciadaÓ, Physics major, Specialization in Atmospheric
Physics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Current position 2013 – Assistant
Professor (tenure-track), GRS Department, Delft University of Technology, The
Netherlands Previous positions 2011 – 2013 Postdoctoral
Researcher, ÒIce and ClimateÓ group, IMAU, Utrecht University, The Netherlands 2006 – 2011 Postdoctoral
Researcher, Dep. of Geography, University of California at
Berkeley, USA Fellowships and grants 2013 – 2018 Delft
Technology Fellowship, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands 2011-2013
International Incoming Marie Curie Fellowship, FP7, EU. Project: ÒFutGreenlandiceÓ 2009 –
2011 Small Grant for Exploratory Research, National
Science Foundation, USA Teaching 2016/17 At Delft University of
Technology: á
CIE4602
Ice, snow and climate change: observations and modelling á
CIE4510
Climate change: science and ethics May 2011 - Lecturer
of the First Summer School on ice sheets and glaciers from the Nordic Center
of Excellence SVALI, May 2011. http://www.csc.fi/english/csc/courses/archive/svali_summerschool2011 International
activities and memberships á
Contributing author
to the Chapter on Sea Level of the
last IPCC report AR5. á
Co-chair, Land Ice Working
Group of the CESM á
Member, American and European Geophysical Unions á
Referee, Journal of Climate, Climate
Dynamics, Geophysical Research
Letters, Nature Communications, Journal of Geophysical Research, Climate of the Past, The Cryosphere, Annals of Glaciology and Journal of Glaciology. |
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NEWS á I was awarded an ERC
Starting Grant 2015, for the project ÒCoupledIceClimÓ á I was interviewed in Summer 2016 by Julia Rosen for Science News regarding a Cold War military base excavated in
the Greenland ice sheet á I have an opening for
a PhD position on modeling the Future Greenland Ice
Sheet coupled to the Climate System with CESM-CISM Online in Geophysical
Research Letters (accepted on 23-04-2015): Coupled simulations of Greenland ice sheet and climate
change up to AD 2300 These are the first coupled Greenland ice sheet
model and AOGCM under RCP/ECP forcing.
Results show strong coupling between surface mass balance, elevation and
ice flow, and a wide ensemble spread in the simulated present-day mass
trends as a result of climate variability. --------------- Our
paper ÒThe pattern of
anthropogenic signal emergence in Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balanceÓ, is published in GRL, and featured as EditorÕs choice
in the Sep 5th issue of Science
Review article: Vizcaino, M.
(2014), Ice sheets as interactive components of Earth System Models: progress
and challenges. WIREs Clim Change. doi: 10.1002/wcc.285 Please contact me if you would like a copy (M.Vizcaino ATSIGN tudelft.nl) The
last IPCC report AR5 was published online in its final version in Jan 2014. My
work on the multi-century evolution of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets
and its impact on the climate system appears as a key reference of the Chapter 13 on Sea Level, being cited in 22
places in the text (17 for first author publications).
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participated in the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Polar and Land Ice Working Groups
of the Community Earth System Model in Boulder,
Colorado (USA), in Jan 2014. You can have a look at my presentation and/or read the summary. ------- Published in 2014 in GRL: Fyke, J. G., M.
Vizca’no, W. Lipscomb, and S. Price (2014), Future climate
warming increases Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance variability, Geophysical
Research Letters, 41(2), 470-475, doi:
10.1002/2013gl058172.
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Model evaluation & 1850-2005 results
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